From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed6f612e60cd2790 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Jones - JON Subject: Re: Ada Student Needs Help.. Date: 1997/01/17 Message-ID: <2soheoiju2.fsf@hp755d2.eurocontrol.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 210412215 references: <5bdl4i$ffl@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> <1997Jan13.130528.1@eisner> organization: Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, Bretigny-Sur-Orge, France newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) writes: > > Larry Kilgallen (kilgallen@eisner.decus.org) wrote: > : In article <5bdl4i$ffl@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>, jmb36@bton.ac.uk (baker) writes: > : > I just want a genral solution, hopefully avoiding arrays (cos I'm not very > : > good with them) Can I use Record types? > > : If you aren't very good with arrays, that might be a good reason to > : use them for your project, since the goal is learning rather than > : actually mixing drinks. > > Well said, Larry, you took the words out of my mouth. > > : However, I might be wrong about that, since I am not in the > : Education business. > > You're not wrong -- not wrong at all! Added to this the student has now raised the issue that if he doesn't use arrays he is admitting defeat. Next project... a generic matrix multiplication packge for NxN(xN etc :) arrays. Reminds me of a student who disagreed with my fathers marking, my father admitted he was wrong in that case but pointed out 5 other places where he really should have docked marks so the student ended up with plus a few and minus more. -- Un Lupe en France | Cat 1, Cha, Cha, Cha -- NERC offical drinking song ----The above of opinions rarely reflect my own and never my employers------ Do not add me to mailing lists violations will be billed for time.